If you're prone to spilling when pouring your morning orange juice, here's a trick to keep the liquid from sticking to the side of the jug and dripping everywhere.

Redditor Cheesewire shares a common chemistry tip, and applies it to basic household cooking:

When pouring, to avoids drip down the side of the jug place a rodlike object across the mouth of the mug/jug/cup/bowl. Water's polarity causes it to "stick" to the side of the jug. By adding the rod, it makes the water to stick to that instead. It just rolls down it and pours off the tip of the rod.

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You can use pretty much anything in your kitchen to do this—a piece of silverware, a wooden spoon, or (my preferred choice) a chopstick. You do have chopsticks for eating potato chips, right? To see this trick in action, check out the video to the left, featuring Bill Nye pouring some salt water into a fish tank. Fast forward to 1:15 for the important part, unless you also want to learn a thing or two about ocean currents.